Warburg Institute The Scholastic Origins of a Renaissance Humanist: The Isagoge of Symphorien Champier Professor Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) Symphorien Champier made his medical career as an advocate of the new classicism of Quattrocento Italy, and he has often been called a ‘humanist.’ His earliest work is pure scholasticism, however: an Introduction to Instruction in Grammar and Logic. The chronology of this nominalist polemic is uncertain. Its target is speculative grammar, often called ‘modes of signifying,’ which Champier denounced as realism in logic and semantics. Professor Copenhaver’s talk will introduce this little-known book and try to puzzle out its purposes. School of Advanced Study, University of London Trust Fund event with support from the Staunton-Cassal Fund